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Category Archives: Guest Post
Guest Post: My Life with Anorexia
‘Attention seeker’, ‘diet gone wrong’, ‘stick insect’, ‘grow up’. I’ve heard these all before, how apparently I am crying out for attention, on a diet gone wrong to become a stick insect and to get better I must grow up. … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Life Imitates a Joke
I know this joke about a guy in a flood. As the water rises, he climbs higher and higher in his house. Finally, he is sitting on the roof. A neighbor comes by in a rowboat and says, “Hop in, … Continue reading
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Tagged end the stigma, faith, God, healing, hope, joke, medication, mental health, mental illness, therapy
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The Stigma of Postpartum Depression: Guest post by Dr. Elizabeth Hatchuel
Postpartum Depression. We’ve all heard about it. Most pregnant women have read about it. Many of us know people personally who have experienced it. As one of the most common complications of childbirth, nearly 1 in 7 women (about 500,000 … Continue reading
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My Battle with Stigma: A Psychologist’s Story
I am a strong woman, a self-proclaimed wise old woman of 59 years, a helping professional with my own history of mental illness, and hailing from a family where untreated mental illness was devastating. I dance under the stars on … Continue reading
Guest Post by @aadawareness
My name is Marley Puckett and my friend, Emily Adams, and I are from Broad Run High school in Ashburn, Virginia and we are in FCCLA, which is a student run organization with its main focus as family. We complete … Continue reading
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Stigma and Eating Disorders by @Katiecatharsis
Eating disorders tend to be very stigmatized by the media and are usually mentioned in conjunction with celebrities who have lost a tiny bit of weight and are suddenly classed as ‘anorexic’. There are many stigmas about eating disorders and … Continue reading
Guest Post about OCD by Rebecca
I’m Rebecca, a 21 year old from the North of England and I have OCD. I thought I’d start off by taking a photo of my hands. You’re probably looking at them wondering where the cracks and sores are, after … Continue reading
Guest Post by Chelsey Sidler-Lartey
“Are you sure you want to post that? Everyone will know,” my wife asked. “I know. That’s the point. I’m not hiding anymore,” I replied as I hit “publish”. I have received nothing but positive feedback since I started my … Continue reading
Guest Post: The Whole Of Me Is Not The Sum Of My Parts by Rachel Cooper
It would be easy to introduce myself to you and say “I’ve suffered from depression and I’ve survived suicide attempts, and I’ve rebuilt myself from the bottom up”. But to do that would be to ignore all of the other … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, end the stigma, identity, mental health, mental illness, rachel cooper, recovery
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Guest Post: Mental Illness Stigma at Work by Stephanie Shantz
I’ve lived with mental illness for my entire life. When I was little and visitors came by, I would dash to my room and hide for hours, too fearful of interaction with people I did not know well. On one … Continue reading
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